Preserving and Celebrating
Our United Methodist Heritage in Central and Northeast Pennsylvania

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Central Pennsylvania Evangelical
Pastors Click on the first letter of the surname to enter the file of all
the pastors for that letter. The instructions file gives information
about this project, the dates at which various conference boundary changes
occurred, and detailed bibliographic references.

Note: G.
H. Schleh was the pastor of record when the
Evangelical churches were erected in East Berlin in 1879 and Bryansville in 1882.He later became a prominent lecturer for the Woodmen of the World lodge
and is the author of the 1914 biography of Joseph Cullen Root (1844-1913),
founder of the Woodmen of the World.In
1916 Dr. G.H. Schleh was the Congregational minister
in Krakow NE.The first Mrs. Schleh is the daughter of Abraham Krause and the
granddaughter of James Barber.The
second marriage appears to have taken place about the time G.H. Schleh left the Conference.

SCHLOSSER,
NOAH

Born: c1823Franklin
County PAmarried:
Katherine Maxwell

Died: 1909Denver COobit:
[c1833 – 1914]

1844license

1846deacon

Interment:

Obit:

1844-46Virginia
Circuit

1846located

1848admitted
on trial, Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1848-49Mifflin

1849-50McConnellsburg

1850-51Jacksonville

1851-52Sweet Springs

1852-53Baltimore Canton-Asbury

1853-54Washington Ryland

1854-57St. Mary’s (did not finish third year)

1857charter
member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58located

1858-60Green Village

1860-61located

1861retired

1868charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1879located at own request

became a dentist

1883moved to Denver CO

Note: Information on Noah Schlosser is in the biographical
files at the conference archives.

Note:
Dale E. Seitz was from Newville, Cumberland County.He later moved to Carlisle, held a position
at the Farmer’s Trust Company, and appears to have become an active layman in
the Presbyterian Church.

Note:
Adam W. Shenberger was a very successful pioneer
missionary, pastor and district superintendent in Kansas and Nebraska.He is the namesake of Shenberger
Chapel in York County, erected on his land in 1865.There was different Adam W, Shenberger, a businessman of Red Lion, who died about
1900.This surname is also rendered
SCHENBERGER.A native of Shrewsbury,
Susan F. Moody Shenberger was the organizer and first
president of the Platte River Conference Branch of the Woman’s Home and Foreign
Missionary Society, active in temperance causes, and the author of published
pamphlets and speeches – she died in Kansas and is buried there.A.W. Shenberger
may have returned from the west prior to 1912, as his 1910 marriage to Elenora Swartz took place in Harrisburg PA.

Note:
Noah B. Sherk is the father of Mary Elizabeth SherkStreyffeler, wife of Samuel
H. Streyffeler (1867-1948) of the Iowa EV-EUB Conference
and mother of Earl R. Streyffeler (1893-1982) of the
Iowa UM Conference.A biographical
sketch of N.B. Sherk is given in the 1901
Biographical Record of Linn County Iowa, pages 51-53.This surname is sometimes erroneously
rendered SHIRK.

Note:
John D. Shortess is the son of Samuel I. Shortess and the brother of Thomas A. Shortess.He is the co-author of the 1916 Evangelical Centennial Celebration an d
the 1939 History of the Central
Pennsylvania Conference.Mrs. Shortess is a granddaughter of James Barber and her Union
Seminary records give her name as Leah Minerva Spitler.

1955license, West Virginia Conference,
recommended by Fairmont First
1957ordained elder, West Virginia
Conference

Interment:
Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA
Obit: 2008,428

1955-57student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH

1955-57Eaton OH

1957-58Reader

1958-60South Charleston mission

1960-61Salem

1961transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference

1961-71Windsor

1971-79York Trinity

1979-90Wrightsville Grace

1990 retired

SHULE,
JOHN

Born:married:
Died:obit:

1867license

Interment:
Obit:

SHULTZ,
IRVIN STURGER

Born:married:
Died:obit:

1907license
1909ordained deacon
1911ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1907-11Juniata Park
1911-12located
1912withdrew with
credentials

“transfer” to the
Presbyterian Church

Philadelphia Trinity

Note: I.
Sturger Shultz is the son of James F. Shultz.He is also the brother of James A. Shultz and
Ward K. Shultz, and of William Shultz of the Methodist Episcopal Church.He graduated from Grove City College in 1913
and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1918.

Note:
James F. Shultz is the father four pastors: by his first wife, William Maxwell
Shultz (1867-1934) of the West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church; by his second wife, James A. Shultz; by his third wife,I. Sturger Shultz
and Ward K. Shultz.

Note:
Daniel Sill moved to Lincolnville in 1871 and led the organizing of the Zion
Evangelical congregation there, which met in his home until erecting a building
on his land.He also served as
postmaster 1873-1881.

1959-63director, South East Area Migrant
Ministry
1963executive secretary,
Delaware Council of Churches

Note:
Samuel A. Snyder Jr is the son of Samuel A. SnydeSr and the brother of William H. Snyder.

SNYDER,
WILLIAM HENRY

Born:
9-24-1912Middleburg PAmarried:
Died: 8-25-2002obit:

License

Interment:
Obit:

1940-51Dorsey

1951without assignment

director of social
services, Harford County MD

Note:
William H. Snyder is the son of Samuel A. Snyder Sr
and the brother of Samuel A. Snyder Jr.

SOMERVILLE,
ALBERT EDWARD

Born:
1838married:
Alice Lydia Hill
Died: 1-6-1894obit:

1858license

Interment:
Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA
Obit:

1862-63Columbia

1863suspended

Note: It
has not been verified that the Albert Edward Somerville described above, who
lived in Mifflin County in the 1870’s and 1880’s and then moved to Cambria
County,is the same ALBERT E.
SOMMERVILLElicensed by the Evangelical
Association in 1858 and the A. SUMMERVILLE who served the Columbia circuit in
1862.

Note: An
extended biographical sketch of AbdrewStahly is given in the 1899 Biographical Record of Ogle County, Illinois, pages 204-206.The second Mrs. Stahley
is the daughter of the noted Joseph Long (1800-1869), bishop of the Evangelical
Association 1843-1869.

Note:
John Stambach is the father of Elias Stambach.Mrs. Stambach is a sister to John Walter Jr. and Michael
Walter.The Snyder County home of their
father, John Walter Sr., near Middleburg, was one of the first Evangelical
preaching places west of the Susquehanna – and it was also visited by the
United Brethren circuit rider Christian Newcomer.

Note:
Roy H. Stetler Jr is the son of Mr. Roy H. StetlerSr (1890 – 1984), noted
publisher for the United Evangelical and Evangelical and Evangelical United Brethren
denominations in Harrisburg PA from 1911 to his retirement in 1958.A biographical sketch of Roy H. StetlerSr is given in the 1974 Encyclopedia of World Methodism.

Note:
A.W. Swengel is a brother to Edwin Swengel, John G.M. Swengel and
Uriah F. Swengel. The 1994 book Threads of Time by Jean Swengel gives
family information, including the statement that the Swengels
are descended (with a corruption of the surname) from Ulrich Zwingli.

Note:
Edwin Swengel is a brother to A.W. Swengel, John G.M. Swengel and
Uriah F. Swengel.The 1994 book Threads of Time
by Jean Swengel gives family information, including
the statement that the Swengels are descended (with a
corruption of the surname) from Ulrich Zwingli.

Note:
John G.M. Swengel is a brother to A.W. Swengel, Edwin Swengel and Uriah
F. Swengel.He
is the father of Carrie Swengel Gift, wife of Rev.
Foster Ulysses Gift (b. 1871) of the Lutheran Church.The 1994 book Threads of Time by Jean Swengel gives
family information, including the statement that the Swengels
are descended (with a corruption of the surname) from Ulrich Zwingli.

Note: Uriah F. Swengel is a brother to A.W. Swengel, Edwin Swengel and John G.M. Swengel.Mrs. Swengel is the daughter of S.T. Buck.The 1994 book Threads of Time by Jean Swengel gives family information, including the statement that the Swengels are descended (with a corruption of the surname) from Ulrich Zwingli.The first Mrs. Swengel was a co-founder of the denominations Woman’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society and a biography of her appears in that organization’s 1910 Twenty-five year history Reminiscences.